Court Says Trump’s AG Bill Barr Lied about The Mueller Report
A federal appeals court in Washington ruled contrary to William Barr’s public announcement that he had evaluated the evidence of obstruction in Robert Mueller’s report and decided there was not enough to charge Donald Trump, Barr did not give consideration to such a charge before declaring insufficient evidence.
Appellate court exposes Bill Barr’s lies about secret DOJ memo used to protect Trump from charges
Recall that federal judge Reggie Walton found that former Attorney General Bill Barr spun the conclusions of the Mueller report, mischaracterized its findings, and announced that “Bill Barr lacks candor.”
Now a federal appellate panel has ruled that Bill Barr also lied when he claimed that a secret memo compelled him to decline to charge Donald Trump with the obstruction of justice crimes documented by Bob Mueller’s investigating into Trump-Russia coordination in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
This video discusses the new court finding that a secret memo that Bill Barr mischaracterized must be released in its entirely.
Federal Judge Calls Out Bill Barr For Lying About Mueller Report
Rachel Maddow looks at former Attorney General Bill Barr’s record of lying about the Mueller report, and outlines a federal judge’s finding that Barr lied again about how the decision was made not to charge Donald Trump with obstruction of justice, ordering the release of never-before-seen material on that subject unless Attorney General Merrick Garland appeals that decision.
Judge Slams Former AG Barr’s ‘Disingenuous’ Spin Of Robert Mueller Probe
A federal judge has ruled that former Attorney General William Barr was ‘disingenuous’ about the process behind his decision to issue a memo clearing then-President Trump on obstruction of justice charges.
The DOJ under Barr wrongly withheld parts of a Russia probe memo, a court rules
The Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr improperly withheld portions of an internal memo Barr cited in announcing that then-President Donald Trump had not obstructed justice in the Russia investigation, a federal appeals panel said Friday. The department had argued that the 2019 memo represented private deliberations of its lawyers before any decision was formalized, and was thus exempt from disclosure.
